Eric Bodden (born 20 February 1980 in Aachen) is a German

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. He holds the Chair of Secure Software Engineering at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of the

Paderborn University Paderborn University (german: Universität Paderborn) is one of the fourteen public research universities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It was founded in 1972 and 20,308 students were enrolled at the university in the winter ...

and is Director of Software Engineering and IT Security at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Design (IEM). He is also head of the engineering department in the Collaborative Research Centre 1119 CROSSING at the

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Career

Bodden's undergraduate studies consist of a

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degree at

RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

.Prof. Eric Bodden, Ph.D.
/ref> His thesis won the 2005 undergraduate category of the ACM Student Research Competition. From 2006 to 2009, Bodden did a PhD at

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. From 2009 to 2015, Eric Bodden worked at the

Technische Universität Darmstadt The Technische Universität Darmstadt (official English name Technical University of Darmstadt, sometimes also referred to as Darmstadt University of Technology), commonly known as TU Darmstadt, is a research university in the city of Darmstadt ...

. Since the summer of 2013, Bodden has held a cooperative professorship at the ''Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology'' and the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Since 2016, Bodden has worked at the ''Heinz Nixdorf Institute'' at the

University of Paderborn Paderborn University (german: Universität Paderborn) is one of the fourteen public research universities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It was founded in 1972 and 20,308 students were enrolled at the university in the winter ...

and been a director for software engineering and IT security at the ''Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Systems Design''. Bodden is a member of the BITKOM Management Club, Distinguished Member of the

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and the ''Gesellschaft für Informatik''.

Awards

In 2014, Eric Bodden received the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize of the

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. The Technische Universität Darmstadt team placed second in the 2014 ''German IT Security Award'' from the Horst Görtz Foundation and the first place in 2016. In 2019, Bodden was named an ACM Distinguished Scientist. Five of his publications have received the ACM Distinguished Paper Award. Three of his previous doctoral students received the Ernst Denert Prize for Software Engineering.

Weblinks

Personal Website Eric Bodden

Chair for Secure Software Engineering at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute

References

External links

Homepage Eric Bodden
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